Not grey anymore, call it "off-white"

I used to think that the UK was grey, cars were mainly grey, weather is grey, political climate, and the actual climate, everything is grey, and it was getting me down. I am normally a glass 1/2 full type of guy, so, on the 1st day of Spring, I had a change of mind. Now grey does not exist in my vocabulary, and what used to be called "grey" is now "off-white". What a difference this has made to my view of life. Try it for yourself.

Grey, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly

I am completely fed-up with this miserable, grey country, and cannot wait to leave. Roll on 21/11/2012. The latest news, about more politicians fiddling expenses, 50p for milk, I ask you, and the thought that we might have to pay compensation to criminals for denying them the right to vote. Come on, are we completely bonkers? We should be telling the European Court of Human Rights to take a long jump, or pay the compensation themselves, Unelected pillocks! And don't get me started on health and safety. God forbid, it is thought to be dangerous to leave your house in case you stumble on something. This country, and I am ashamed to admit I was born here, has turned into a grey mass of wanna-be property owners, or scroungers, or both, a haven for terrorists, scoundrels, illegal immigrants, pseudo-refugees simply here for free handouts. And our elected leaders are too cowardly to do the right thing. Leaving the EU, bringing back hanging, and chucking illegal immigrants out would be a good start. Celebrity culture dominates everything else, TV programmes are, on the whole, repeated rubbish, or moronic wallpaper, like the X-factor, or any of the soaps. How can people watch such drivel? Let me go back to the bush, where all I hear is Mother Nature, a wind-pump, and the BBC World Service.

TV brainwashing

The most annoying TV adverts?

Car insurance, home insurance, pet insurance, insurance and more bloody insurance.

The interminable % of interminable people interviewed who approve of their hairspray, mascara, floor cleaner, shampoo, make-up, etc, etc.

DFS and their never-ending sale.

Happy smiling banks and building societies.

European Human Rights idiots

Terrorists!. We find them, convict them and jail them, but we can't send them back to their own countries as the European Court of Human Rights say they might be in danger. Shame. Now, this same, august, body, tells us that terrorists we have in jail, and who are wanted by the US, cannot be deported as they face harsh sentences, and/or conditions. Another big shame. Isn't it time we listened to our own courts, our own justice, and told the Europeans legal monkeys to go and take a jump. Whoops, sorry, that is probably against European health and safety! Let me out of this insane asylum.t

YouTube twit or nitwit.

"Until I lost 900 videos, I never actually considered there was anything unsafe about trusting a company such as Google to protect my data. After all, who keeps photos in a shoebox any more?"

A blogger, name withheld for legal reasons, had his YouTube account removed after uploading a video from a gig by British comedian Jimmy Carr.

The BBC article re this man who "lost" his videos from Google/YouTube, raised my ire. He obviously transgressed, not for the 1st time, and deserved all he got. His comments about his 900 video files, and who uses shoe-boxes, were childish, and offensive. As someone who keeps my own video files, on my own storage devices, I have no desire to use on-line storage applications, such as Facebook or YouTube, and if he wants storage, he should pay for it. People like him, who take unauthorised videos, using their mobile phones, and then upload them, are pirates, and need slapping down.

Child-free shopping hours

Child-free shopping times.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go shopping, especially for the main weekly shopping, during a time without hordes of noisy, badly behaved, obnoxious, brats!.
I call upon major retailers to give us the option of at least an hour, each week, to enjoy our shopping experience, without having to avoid buggy-pushing parents, and their misbehaving offspring.

Tiger b****y Woods is the main story on TV, Radio, and the newspapers. Why? He is a golfer who was unfaithful to his wife, hardly Earth-shattering news, and of NO importance whatsoever to those of us, the majority of the World I imagine, who care not a jot for golf or golfers.